h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Welcome to the Guide! Have you any experience with the works of DNA? I hope you are so far finding this site friendly at any rate. I reccommend checking out some of the clubs (I'm a Thingite myself)to start conversing. Anyway, I'm from Michigan myself, it's always nice to see another american join the guide! Let me know if you need anything!
Yankee-shoes

Another American!? Thank-you for my laugh of the day! A Thingite? I'll be sure to check that out.

wanderinjac

Yeah, the Thingites are great... course I am a complete geek, so that makes a difference. My parents are completely hip, a couple of hippy types who love having teenagers over for pizza parties and play louder music than their kids... I love to read, discuss Batman in the most serious fashion with my ex-roomate, and can recite most Monty Python bits and all of the Princess Bride by heart.
Another weird fact... my real first and middle names are Rachel Tweedlebug. Hmm.
Yankee-shoes

I have never laughed so hard at a movie! Your parents sound like me...although my daughter has the more conventional middlename of Elizabeth.

wanderinjac

If you liked the movie... check out the book ! It's one of those times where the book and movie are completely different, but the feel is so much the same you aren't dissappointed with either. (Kinda like how DNA's radio scripts, books, and BBC show completely disagree but are all basically the same.)
Is your daughter on h2g2? Do you only have one kid? I have a sister and three half brothers... all in the music industry, excep one who is a lawyer (we treat him like the normal child on the Munsters, kind but with a twinge of pity).
Yankee-shoes

I did read the book and I agree with you. I haven't read any of DNA's work but I soon will.

My daughter isn't on this site; she goes to Bolt. I have a son as well; he is too young to be on any site.

A lawyer in the family. Do you make him hide when guests arrive?

Technically he only works for a lawfirm, but that translates into LAWYER with me. Fortunately, he lives in Georgia.
As far as reading DNA, I started because I happened upon the radio scripts in my Dad's comedy collection when I was 12. I then read the Hitchhiker trilogy of 5 or 6 books. My Uncle brought me first edition Dirk Gentlys after a trip to England. (This Uncle is also responsible for anything I know of BBC programming) While in California I picked up Salmon of Doubt (which should only be read after perusal of the other books). I think they are all an absolute scream (then again, I'm a sucker for satire and British culture.
Do you read often? If so, what? What do you do for a living? What is there to do in your neck of the galaxy? Any DNA slang around here needing explanation (some people get really snobby about it, purists everywhere)?
Y.S.

Let's see....

My husband & I are self employed, I live near Calgary, AB, Canada so there is lots to do (hiking, skiing, etc.), I love to read & do so voraciously. My favorites are Reginald Hill, Minette Walters. I am unashamed to say I'm a huge Stephen King fan from waaaayyy back.

What about you? What do you read?

Jaq

Whatever I can get my hands on! Liked the Green Mile as far as King goes... big fan of Pablo Neruda's poetry, Tolkein, C.S. Lewis's non-fiction, Dickens, lots of political and historical stuff. Went through a violence phase and read Elmore Leonard... liked both Bridget Jone's books... Lately I have been into comics and cartoons (Get Fuzzy, Bloom County, Batman,) and I sketch and write a lot. This summer I read Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Salmon of Doubt.
later! Y.S.

I'm reading Little Nell right now. I'm finding it more melodramatic than I expected for one of his "great" novels.*shrugs*

I have read all the Tolkien I can get my hands on. My daughter is reading the Two Towers etc. before the next movie comes out.

You liked Bridget Jones? I was disappointed.

What sorts of things do you write?

Jaq

I write a lot of sappy adolescent poetry, satire, parodies, and am working on a novel and some non-fiction about my rather crazy life. I'm working on a guide entry right now. I didn't see the Bridget Jones movie, but the books made me laugh out loud (I admit they were a little risque for my tastes, though.)
Sometime when I have more time, I will send off some of my poems, if you'd like... must run, going up north to visit the 'rents tomorrow morning (it's a Thing, what can I say)... going to set them up on h2g2.
Y.S.

YS,

I'd like to read some of your work but I must warn you my limited exposure to poetry consists of items such as this from Ogden Nash:

A cow is of the bovine ilk,
One end moo, the other milk

(one of my daughter's favs as a little girl)

Books to make you laugh out loud...I like Robertson Davies or some Margaret Atwood (neither are risque).

Enjoy the visit with your folks.

_jacq_

Thanks! I'll be sure to check them out! I too like Ogden Nash, but was raised with Hillair Belloc:
The buffalo, the buffalo, it had a horrid snuffle-o
and not a single indian chief
would lend the beast a handkerchief
which goes to show how very,very far
from courtesy some people are!

Oh, if only I could aspire to that!

Going to have dinner with some friends!
Y.S.

I liked that poem

I'm off for a couple weeks. Enjoy the rest of your summer!

_jacq_

Here's one for each of you then:

"The truth I do not stretch or shove
When I state the dog is full of love,
I've also proved, by actual test,
A wet dog is the lovingest." (Ogden N)

and

"As a friend to the children, commend me the yak;
You will find it exactly the thing;
It will carry and fetch, you can ride on its back, Or lead itr about with a string." (Hillaire B.)

I was brought up on a substantial diet of both of them, and loved them dearly, but I must confess to a sneaking adminration for Spike Milligan:

"A very rash young lady pig
(They say she was a smasher)
Suddenly ran
Under a van -
Now she's a bacon rasher"

(or "Now she's a gammon rasher" in some versions)

Cheers

Rod